Whilst on business in the South American country of Carrados, Richard Potter, vice president of Harkness Chemical, had been kidnapped by terrorists. The President of Carrados not only refused to make a deal with the kidnappers, but he threatened Harkness Chemical with expropriation of their assets if they did. Then Lynn Mason came to Peter Styles, investigative reporter for NEWSVIEW magazine, begging him to find Potter, her lover. Against his better judgment, Peter accepted the challenge...
Judson Pentecost Philips (August 10, 1903 – March 7, 1989) was an American writer who wrote more than 100 mystery and detective novels under the pseudonyms Hugh Pentecost and Philip Owen, as well as under his own name. As Judson Philips, he also wrote numerous pulp sports novels in the 1930s